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●THE PYRAMID TEXTS

Texts

How we read the industry’s own record.

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000
What, Why, How
The 2019 manifesto behind Pyramid-IO, published with nothing removed and nothing improved: the role it named, what it knew and did not, and the language it is content to own.
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THE ARGUMENT
I
Design = Planning
A building is decided long before it is built. The industry's own instruments read together: the RIBA Plan of Work, the DfMA Overlay, PAS 8700 and the gateways.
Integration
II
Sixty-Four Years of the Same Report
From Emmerson in 1962 to Hackitt in 2018, UK construction reviews keep returning to the same diagnosis. What changed in the last decade is the toolset.
Living
III
What the Lowest Price Buys
Race-to-the-bottom procurement, read through fifty years of research from outside the industry and the industry's own ledger, and the contracted alternative.
Integration
THE EVIDENCE
004
Twelve Weeks, Says the Law
Gateway 2's statutory period is twelve weeks for a new higher-risk building; the median is twenty-two. What the regulator's own data shows, and the one lever applicants hold. Data to 31 August 2026.
Certainty
005
The Supply Chain Already Exists
A new house is a collection of manufactured products assembled in a field. The seven MMC categories, what factories need from projects, and what is already in motion.
Delivery
006
The £256 Pound
One pound of error-reduction training returned a reported £256.48 across 25 UK projects, over 76 per cent of it from planning. What the number means, and its limits.
Certainty

Every Text begins in the same place: a project, and a decision not yet made. Tell us about your project.